The Thousand Gates; or, morning day two

I went to bed with aching legs and considering doing something requiring minimal walking today.

So of course when I woke up I decided to climb a mountain.

Specifically, Mt. Inari, home to Japan's most famous Shinto shrine, Fushimi Inari - aka that place with all the red arches.
These torii gates line the whole path up the mountain, and everywhere you go are shrines. To counterpoint yesterday's necropolis, today I saw a theopolis. Or rather several. There are over a thousand individual shrines on the mountain.
It took about two hours to get to the top (about 700 feet up), but I made it!

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